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ar_lan

I'm not a Facebook fan, but I am hugely grateful for their contributions of React and GraphQL.

I think engineers should be considered dis-associated.

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Engineers are special innocent snowflakes that would never do a bad thing?

Engineers on the ground developing technologies generally aren't responsible for overarching business decisions, no.

I feel like this is an intricate argument.

Why are german soldiers held in a negative light even though the war decisions were by its commanders?

They aren't held in a negative light... After the war, they were forgiven and I think society in general has accepted that they were just following orders. The leaders definitely thought in a negative light.

This is not true. "Just following orders" was held to be not a valid defense in the Nuremberg trials: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

Well they generally aren't responsible for the strategic decisions of the company.

But nobody said they are somehow immune from doing bad things. So nice strawman.

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